Well, this is not really a posting about how applications are like people - its just an FYI that I will be presenting at The MIT Spam Conference 2009 being held at (surprise) MIT. It is a two day conference on March 26-27, 2009.
You can register (sponsor and MIT funded - no charge) by emailing the chair, Kathy Liszka Professor, Computer Science University of Akron, at mailto:liszka@uakron.edu?subject=SC2009
The agenda is reasonably technical and is as follows: (I hope to see you there!)
Thursday March 26, 2009
9:30 a.m. breakfast
10:00 a.m. chair opening
Kathy Liszka / Bill Yerazunis
10:15 a.m. keynote
Robert Bruen: ICANN Policy Enforcement
10:45 a.m. keynote
Garth Bruen: The Future of Anti-Spam: A Blueprint for New Internet Abuse Tools
11:15 a.m. paper
Adrian McElligott: Email Permission Keys
11:45 a.m. lunch
1:30 p.m. paper
Claudiu Musat: Spam Clustering Using Wave Oriented K Means
2:00 p.m. paper
Sebastian Holst: Account-free” Email Services to Combat Phishing, Brand Infringement, and Other Online Threats
2:45 p.m. paper
Nathan Friess: A Kosher Source of Ham
3:15 p.m. paper
Didier Colin: A Selective Learning Model For Spam Filtering
3:45 p.m. presentation
Rudi Vansnick: Is Spam in Europe easier to handle ?
6:00 p.m. reception
Courtesy of ComCast
Friday March 27, 2009
9:00 a.m. breakfast
9:30 a.m. paper
Tim Martin: Phishing for Answers: Exploring the Factors that Influence a Participant's Ability to Correctly Identify Email
10:00 a.m. paper
Reza Rajabiun: IPv6 and Spam
10:45 a.m. workshop
Adrian McElligott: How to integrate Email Permission Keys in to an existing Spam Filter in 5 easy steps
11:15 a.m. paper
Henry Stern: The Rise and Fall of Reactor Mailer
11:45 a.m. lunch
1:00 p.m. presentation
Andra Miloiu Costina: Do humans beat computers at pattern recognition?
1:30 p.m. paper
Cesar Fernandes: An Economic Approach to Reduce Commercial Spam
2:15 p.m. paper
Alexandru Catalin: Phishing 101
2:45 p.m. paper
Areej Al-Bataineh: Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-generated Spam
